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If you are reading this, On This Day, you will be aware of the
importance of the facts as they happen.
Many things are reported to have happened on this day, which did not happen. ( This
is Fact ) |
21ST
DECEMBER
FEAST DAY OF
"ST THOMAS THE APOSTLE; SAINTS
THEMISTOCLES & DIOSCORUS: ST JOHN VINCENT; ST ANASTASIUS II OF ANTIOCH; ST PETER
CANUSIUS; & ST GLYCERIUS." |
| 21ST |
1620 |
THE PILGRIM FATHERS LAND AT PLYMOUTH ROCK, MASACHUSETTS, U.S.
ABOARD THE MAYFLOWER. |
| 21ST |
1898 |
SCIENTISTS, "PIEERE &
MARIE CURIE" DISCOVER RADIUM. |
| 21ST |
1914 |
FIRST FEATURE LENGTH SILENT FILM COMEDY, "TILLIE’S
PUNCTURED ROMANCE" STARRING "MARIE DRESSLER, MABEL NORMAND, & CHARLES
CHAPLIN" IS RELEASED. |
| 21ST |
1935 |
THE DOUGLAS DC-3, A NEW
AIRLINER CAPABLE OF CARRYING 21 PASSENGERS AT NEARLY 160 mph MADE IT’S FIRST FLIGHT
TODAY.
THE ORIGINAL DC-3 HAD 14 BEDS TO COMPETE WITH RAILROAD PULLMAN SLEEPER SERVICE. |
| 21ST |
1937 |
THE "AEROPLANE JELLY" JINGLE WAS RECORDED IN
SYDNEY. |
| 21ST |
1937 |
THE FIRST FULL LENGTH ANIMATED
TALKING FILM, "WALT DISNEY’S" "SNOW WHITE & THE SEVEN DWARDS"
WAS SHOWN IN LOS ANGELES. |
| 21ST |
1949 |
THE FIRST SPEEDWAY MEETING IS HELD AT ROWLEY PARK SPEEDWAY,
ADELAIDE. THE SPEEDWAY CONTINUED SUCCESSFULLY UNTIL IT CLOSED ON 6-4 -1979. |
| 21ST |
1952 |
MARRIAGE NUMBER ONE FOR
ACTRESS, "BRIGITTE BARDOT," WHEN SHE MARRIES FILM DIRECTOR, "ROGER
VADIM." IT ENDED IN DIVORCE IN 1957. |
| 21ST |
1954 |
"DOCTOR SAM SHEPPARD’S" WIFE
"MARILYN" IS MURDERED; HE IS ACCUSED OF THE CRIME. |
| 21ST |
1958 |
SWEDISH ACTRESS, "INGRID
BERGMAN," MARRIES FILM PRODUCER, "LARS SCHMIDT," AFTER HER MARRIAGE TO
ITALIAN FILM PRODUCER, "ROBERTO ROSSELLINI," IS ANULLED IN NOVEMBER 1958. |
| 21ST |
1967 |
53 YEAR OLD GROCER, "LOUIS WASHKANSKY," THE WORLDS
FIRST HEART TRANSPLANT PATIENT, DIED IN CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA, 18 DAYS AFTER RECEIVING
THE HEART OF A 25 YEAR OLD WOMAN KILLED IN A CAR CRASH.
THE OPERATION WAS PERFORMED ON 3RD DECEMBER BY, "DR CHRISTIAAN N BARNARD" AT THE
‘GROOT SCHUUR HOSPITAL.’ |
| 21ST |
1983 |
"LORETTA SWIT"
MARRIES "DENNIS HOULIHAN." |
| 21ST |
1991 |
95 SHARE THE $1.3 BILLION LOTTERY FIRST PRIZE IN MADRID,
SPAIN. |
| 21ST |
1991 |
"TED TURNER" &
"JANE FONDA" MARRY. |
| 21ST |
1999 |
26 YEAR OLD ITINERANT WORKER, IS ARRESTED IN SWAN HILL,
VICTORIA, FOR THE MURDER OF 16 YEAR OLD ASPIRING MODEL, "CASSIE BUGG" AT GAWLER,
SOUTH AUSTRALIA, IN OCTOBER. |
| 21ST |
1999 |
"JOHN FARNHAM, KYLIE
MINOGUE, GINA JEFFRIES, & JAMES BLUNDELL" ARE AMONG THE ARTISTS PERFORMING AT THE
DILI, EAST TIMOR, ‘TOUR OF DUTY’ CONCERT. |
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